Tag: Optical

Alcatel introduced a new core DWDM platform aimed at long-haul to ultra long-haul terrestrial network applications as well as unrepeatered ...

Pirelli was awarded a contract for supplying submarine and land fiber optic cables as well as terminal transmission equipment for ...

Luminous Networks, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, announced a reseller agreement under which CIENA will market, sell and support ...

NTT Photonics Laboratories reported a breakthrough in its efforts to develop better optical waveguides. Researchers at NTT have synthesized a ...

LightSand, a start-up based in Milpitas, California announced a family of solutions for extending FICON over IP, SONET/SDH, or dedicated ...

Marconi introduced a new, scalable, WDM transmission platform that could serve metro, long-haul and ultra-long haul distances of up to ...

Nortel Networks unveiled significant enhancements to its Optical Ethernet portfolio, including new features on the Ethernet over Fiber solution. Nortel ...

The Russian carrier Rostelecom selected Siemens to supply and install optical transmission for a 5,000-km transmission link between Novosibirsk and ...

ADVA Optical Networking introduced a new optical access solution based on Generic Framing Procedure (GFP) technology and designed to serve ...

NTT has developed a logical-topology reconfigurable WDM system that would enable network managers to quickly change the topology of a ...

Canoga Perkins introduced OC-48c Coarse Wave Division Multiplexers (CWDM) systems specifically designed for the SAN and metro networks. Th system ...

IBM and Agilent Technologies were selected for a multi-year, $30 million project with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ...

Switched digital video over DSL currently appears to provide a better return-on-investment (ROI) than competing architectures, according to Frank Wiener, ...